Data and Analytics Architect

About Airways:
Our people manage New Zealand's 30 million square kms of airspace, providing air traffic control, surveillance, communication, flight inspection, mapping, and airspace design services. We work with government, regulatory authorities, airlines, airports, and the general aviation community to ensure pilots, passengers and goods reach their destination - safely. At Airways, our values underpin all that we do. We value Safety, One Airways, Excellence and Success in all that we do.

Our organisation is made up of operational business groups that are supported by governance and corporate services functions. To learn more about our people and organisational structure, check out www.airways.co.nz/about.

About the Team:
The Technology Group is responsible for the effective delivery, management, and services of all technology disciplines within the air navigation services environment. These include Oceanic and Domestic Air Traffic Management, Security and a National MPLS Network, National Operations/Maintenance and Specialist Support, Information Technology and Service Management, Project Delivery/Flight Inspection and National Engineering.

The IT & Service Management team reports to the IT & Service Management Manager with peers to this role being the National IT Operations Manager, the Enterprise Applications Manager, the IT Service Assurance Manager and the Service Desk Vendor Manager.

About the Role:
We have a newly created permanent full-time opportunity for a Data and Analytics Architect to join us in Auckland (airport) or Christchurch (Burnside). This role mixes hands-on functional tasks with strategic tasks, ensuring our data is reliable, accessible, secure, and aligned with business objectives.

This will see you develop, design, implement and maintain the organisation’s data architecture, including data models, schemas, and data flow design to support a centralised data function.

You’ll establish and maintain a robust governance framework, policies, and standards to ensure alignment with business needs, security best practices, and regulatory compliance for data architectures.

Additionally, you’ll provide technical direction and oversight to enterprise application and platform teams, ensuring architectural consistency, adherence to best practices, and continuous improvement of performance and reliability.

For a full list of tasks and responsibilities, please refer to the position description (attached to advert on our careers site).

About You:
For success you’ll hold a deep understanding of data modelling, data governance, and integration best practices.

Additionally, you will hold:

• A relevant tertiary degree in IT, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Around 10 years’ experience in the data management domain, with at least three (3) years in an architecture role.
• Design and development experience building data solutions using MS Fabric (non-negotiable), Power BI, dataflows, data factory, and lakehouse architecture.
• Experience with Azure Synapse, Dataverse, and broader Azure Data Services (e.g. Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake and Azure Purview).
• Experience with resource allocation, budgeting, timeline management and data-driven decision making.
• Knowledge of data modelling, data warehousing, and ETL processes.
• Experience with database technologies (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, cloud data platforms).
• Ability to work in a dynamic team and business environment, collaborate with people, show resilience and agility, take ownership and focus on delivering successful outcomes.

Beneficial:
Understanding of security principles, risk management, and compliance requirements.

To Apply:
If you’re able to build capacity, lead change and have a customer & partnership focus, please submit your application (CV and Cover Letter) via the Airways careers site or Seek.

Please note that you must be legally eligible to work in New Zealand to be considered.

This role will require the successful candidate to undergo pre-employment background checks including references, drug and alcohol screening, criminal conviction and related.

Application closing date is Tuesday, 15 July 2025

At Airways, our people are at the heart of what we do to keep NZ skies safe. We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where people feel they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We currently hold the Rainbow Tick and NQTick (neurodiversity) and are working towards Gender Tick. We make our recruitment decisions based on the best candidate for the job and therefore encourage applications from diverse candidates.